Psychological Fiction and Nonfiction
Phane and his green alien family, sentient androids Andy and Robin and their human friends: all of them are now available on Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and other retailers. The paperback and Kindle versions are still on Amazon,…
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Alien Dream Machine, third in a series about Phane Vikos, alien from a distant star stranded on Earth, has placed as a 2021 finalist in the Cygnus Book Awards for Science-fiction! “The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and…
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Alien Dream Machine is the third in the trilogy starring Phane, the green alien from planet Vikos stranded on Earth. Recently, it got a positive review at ReadersFavorite.com. Here’s part of it: Readers Favorite.com: Five Stars! “… a narcoleptic private…
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Mind Without Brain, a short (159 pp) nonfiction essay, is a finalist for the best nonfiction of 2021 at Next Generation Indie Book Awards (https://indiebookawards.com)! Any time an essay in philosophical psychology wins a prize, you know it has to…
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Why do we have bodies? We lug over a hundred pounds of meat and water with us everywhere we go. Wouldn’t life be better if that weren’t necessary? Our minds are connected to our bodies and therefore to the world,…
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The Alien Dream Machine has started up. Gunnar is a young Las Vegas PI who struggles with narcolepsy, falling asleep at unpredictable moments. He tracks down a man who cheats at casino dice, only to learn that the guy is…
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Is the mind the same thing as the brain? Not at all. The brain is an organ, three pounds of protein, fat, and water. The mind, though, is made of ideas, hopes, images, memories, words. Those weigh nothing, take up…
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Scientific Introspection has won the coveted BIBA award for 2020’s best independent book, nonfiction-psychology. See: (https://bestindiebookaward.com/live/) Scientific Introspection is an essay in psychology and philosophy of science. It calls for psychologists to use introspection to investigate the mind. If you thought…
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Alien Panic, Second in the Phane Trilogy, has arrived. Phane Vikos is an anthropologist from a distant planet who was abandoned by his expedition on Earth and left to perish. It’s not his fault if he looks like a green…
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Scientific Introspection is a monograph on philosophical psychology in 45,000 words. It is neither sci- nor fi-, but very psi (psychological). Psi-non-fi? It’s an essay, something I’ve been working on for twenty-five years. I started writing it when I realized how…
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